Cover for application to steering-wheel handles of motor vehicles and the like



t p 1927 A. G. BARRETT ET AL COVER FOR APPLICATION TO STEERING WHEEL HANDLES OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND THE LIKE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 I Filed May 15. 19 25 Se v 1,641,313 p 1927 A. G. BARRETT ET AL COVER FOR APPLICATION TO STEERING WHEEL HANDLES 0F MOTQR VEHICLES AND THE LIKE Filed May 15. 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Sept. 6, 1927.

I NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

COVER. FOR APPLICATION TO STEERING-WHEEL HANDLES OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND 'THE Application filed my 15, 1925, Serial No.

This invention relates to covers for application to the steerin wheel handles of motor vehicles, and the like, in order to provide for the better hand-gripping of said wheel handles.

A cover, according to our invention, comprises an endless rubber band which is-in cross section0f curved or how configuration, and each side whereof is reinforced by a strip of canvas, or the like, cut on the bias; and spaced holes-extending through both the rubber and the canvas, or the likebeing provided near the edges of the band, by the aid of which holes said cover may be laced around a wheel handle.

In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings Fig. 1 is an elevation of a part of a steering wheel handle provided with a cover, according tov our invention.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section, taken as on line AA, Fig.1. v I

Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a reduced cross section of the cover detached, and Fig. 5 is a reduced cross section of the cover and wheel handle, prior to. the cover being laced to the latter. In said drawings, a represents the steering wheel handle of a motor vehicle, and I) generally designates the cover, 0 being an endless rubber band of-curved or bow con- LIKE.

80,608, and in Great Britain Kay 21, 1924.

facture, the band c--being made up from the strips of unvulcanized rubber, with the canvas reinforcing strips d--i s moulded in any pattern desired, face downward on a fiat drum, canvas being wrapped around the band in order to press the rubber into the pattern on the mould. When the rubber is an almost completely vulcanized said strip of binding canvas is unwound, and the band, which has the pattern onthe inside, is changed round so that the patternbecomes on the outside. This flat band is now stretched over a circular former of the required shape and size, so that the center of the band is forced outward, the sides in consequence falling inward. The former-ring, with the band extending on it, is inserted in a hot chamber for a short period, and after being taken out and removed from the former-ring the band will largely retain the shape or configuration of the said former.

What we claim as our invention and de- 5 sire to secure by Letters Patent is:- A cover for the spoke supported rim of a steering wheel of a motor vehicle, said cover comprising an endless band of rubber fitted over the wheel rim with the edges of 7c the band brought close together on the inner wall of the wheel rimin the plane of the spoke and embracing the outer ends of the spokes, a strip of canvas cut on the bias and applied to. the inner wall of the cover at each edge thereof so as to provide stretchable reinforced cover edges that may be drawn towards each other, and lacing connecting the cover edges and extending about the wheel spokes to prevent circumferential e0 sli page of said cover onsaid rim wheel.

11 testimony whereof we aflix our signatures.

ALFRED GEORGE BARRETT.

HUBERT HENRY U TON. 

